# سمور
## Arabic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Persian smwl (*samōr, “sable”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sam.muːr/

### Noun

سَمُّور • (sammūr) m (collective, singulative سَمُّورَة f (sammūra), plural سَمَامِير (samāmīr))
* sable, marten

#### Descendants

* → Spanish: zamarra, chamarra (possibly)
** → Italian: zimarra
*** → Sicilian: cimarra
*** → French: simarre
**** → English: simar
** → Old French: chamarre
*** → Middle English: chimere, chimer
**** English: chimere

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian سمور (samur, “sable”), from Middle Persian smwl (*samōr, “sable”).

### Noun

سمور • (samur or semur) (definite accusative سموری (samuru), plural سمورلر (samurlar))
* sable, any carnivorous mammal of the species Martes zibellina and its pelt or fur

#### Derived terms

* آلا سمور (ala samur, “spotted sable”)
* سمور طرناغی (samur tırnağı, “sort of medicament”)
* سمور كورك (samur kürk, “fur coat made of sable”)
* صاری سمور (sarı samur, “pine marten”)
* صو سموری (su samuru, “otter”)
* مسك سموری (misk samuru, “mink”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: samur
* → Albanian: samur
* → Armenian: սամուր (samur), սամուռ (samuṙ)
* → Bulgarian: саму́р (samúr), съму́рь (sǎmúrʹ)
* → Byzantine Greek: σαμούριον (samoúrion)
** → Greek: σαμούρι (samoúri)
** → Old Church Slavonic: самꙋринъ (samurinŭ)
* → Crimean Tatar: samur / самур
* → Macedonian: самур (samur)
* → Romanian: samur
* → Serbo-Croatian: sàmūr / са̀мӯр

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “سمور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 97
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “samur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4052
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سمور”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 275b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سمور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 692
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mustela Scythica”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1109
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سمور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2676
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “samur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سمور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1079

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* صمور (samur)

### Etymology

From Middle Persian smwl (*samōr); see there for further information.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [sa.ˈmoːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sä.móːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [sä.móːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [sä.móːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [sä.mʊ́ːɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [sæ.múːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [sä.mɵ́ɾ]

### Noun

سمور • (samôr)
* sable

#### Derived terms

* سمور آبی (“otter”)

#### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: սամուր (samur)
* → Kurdish:
    Northern Kurdish: semûr
* → Malay: samur
* → Ottoman Turkish: سمور (samur)
** Turkish: samur
** → Albanian: samur
** → Armenian: սամուր (samur), սամուռ (samuṙ)
** → Bulgarian: саму́р (samúr), съму́рь (sǎmúrʹ)
** → Byzantine Greek: σαμούριον (samoúrion)
*** → Greek: σαμούρι (samoúri)
*** → Old Church Slavonic: самꙋринъ (samurinŭ)
** → Crimean Tatar: samur / самур
** → Macedonian: самур (samur)
** → Romanian: samur
** → Serbo-Croatian: sàmūr / са̀мӯр
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਸਮੂਰ (samūr)
    Shahmukhi script: سمور (samūr)
* → Romani: samur
* → Turkmen: samyr / самыр

### References

* Palatecʻi, Gēorg Dpir (1829) “սէմմուր”, in Baṙaran Parskerēn əst kargi haykakan aybubenicʻ [Persian Dictionary in the Order of the Armenian Alphabet] (in Armenian), Constantinople: Boghos Arabian Press, page 476b